Adrián Gorelik is an architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

, urban

Urban area

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 historian

Historian

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 and leading commentator on urban issues in Argentina. His most well-known books are (1993, with Jorge Liernur), and , 1887-1936 (1998). In 2003 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for a project entitled “The cycle of invention and critique of the ‘Latin American City’.”

Gorelik is currently a professor at the National University of Quilmes

National University of Quilmes

The National University of Quilmes is an Argentine national university and the most important one in the Quilmes area.The National University of Quilmes was founded in 1989...

, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, as well as a researcher in the Intellectual History Program there. In 2002 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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. Gorelik holds several editorial positions at academic culture and design journals

Academic journal

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 including deputy director at , Editorial Board member of and , and Editorial Collective member of Public Culture

Public Culture

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Gorelik received a degree in architecture (1982) and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires

University of Buenos Aires

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(1997).

Selected publications

• “The Past as the Future: A Reactive Utopia in Buenos Aires” (with Graciela Silvestri) in Ana del Sarto, Alicia Rios, Abril Trigo, eds. The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader. Duke University Press, 2004.
• Buenos Aires (with Horacio Coppola Facundo de Zuviria). Lariviere, 2006.
• Miradas Sobre Buenos Aires. Siglo XXI Ediciones, 2004.
• La Grilla y el Parque. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2001.
• Buenos Aires en cuestión. Centro para la Gestión Urbana, 1993.

External links

• National University of Quilmes faculty page